[Coco] The CoCo outside of the U.S.

[Arthur Flexser]

What was involved in making the TV "bi-norm" (PAL/NTSC)?  I would have
thought it would be sufficiently complicated as to preclude them
throwing it in for free when you bought a computer.

Art

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Diego Barizo <diegoba at adinet.com.uy> wrote:
> In Uruguay, the situation was a bit peculiar.
> Radio Shack computers were sold by "Sycom", a local company created just for that purpose.
> I learned Logo and Basic there.
> They had the full computer range. I remember seeing Model I, II, III 12, 16, and some Tandy 1000. Also. Some pockets PC-1,2 and 4.
> And Cocos 1,2 and 3. Those were stock NTSC models, and since local TV is Pal, they would, free of charge, make your TV bi-norm when you bought a Coco.
> I have great memories of the small team that worked there, and I was always trying to find an excuse to hang around after school.
>
> Sent from my Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro
>
> "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>
>>I want to tap into the collective knowledge of the list here, especially those outside of the U.S. who are members and who owned Color Computers back in the day.
>>
>>In the upcoming book, Bill and I want to touch a bit on CoCo as it existed outside of the U.S. There's the issue of clones, which is a different topic and not what I'm looking to discuss at the moment.
>>
>>My understanding is that there were different subsidiaries of Tandy in different countries setup to handle Radio Shack store sales there. Canada had InterTan. Who did Australia have?  Europe?
>>
>>It also appears that international CoCo sales started with the CoCo 2, then carried on with the CoCo 3. I know that a PAL version of the CoCo 3… what about a CoCo 2? And were there any other languages that the BASIC manual was printed in besides English?
>>
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